廣東省韶關市2020高考英語二輪復習 閱讀理解練習（3）

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1、2020廣東韶關市高考英語二輪閱讀理解練習（3） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 【2020模擬】閱讀理解 Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to

2、 the information given in the passage you have just read.。 On “Super Bowl Sunday”, millions of Americans are glued to their TVs. They are eating pizza, chicken wings and chips and cheering every move. They’re watching the Super Bowl. Why are Americans so crazy about American football? Well, it i

3、s more exciting than other sports. One team can lose possession of the ball in a minute, which may allow their opponents to make a touchdown(觸地得分). Then that team may win the game unexpectedly. The Super Bowl also entertains its audience with a great halftime show. The football field is turned into

4、 a stage. Then an impressive performance of dancing and singing with special effects occurs. Since the Super Bowl is the most-watched TV program in America, commercial airtime is also very expensive. Big money is also spent on commercials. They draw the viewers’ attention and advertise their image

5、or products during the commercial break. After football season, the “March Madness” begins. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) competitions begin with 68 men’s college basketball teams. They play until the field is reduced to the “Final Four”. The winning team becomes the national

6、champion. The NBA (National Basketball Association) All-Star game is also held in February. The best players from all the teams play in this game. Baseball is no doubt American’s national sport. From grandpas to young kids, whole families go to ball games together. They wear their favorite team’s c

7、aps or even carry their mascot(吉祥物). Our family went to watch Wang Chien-Ming play in D.C. once. We ate hot dogs, waved flags and sang during the 7th inning(棒球的一局) stretch. If you are not a sports fan yet, come and pick a sport or a team. Go to a ball game with your family, and cheer your team on.

8、Sports are definitely a part of American culture one should not miss. 66. According to the passage, the Super Bowl is _____. A. a well-received American football game B. an expensive American sport C. an impressive TV performance D. a most-watched TV series 67. Which of the following may be

9、one of the reasons for the popularity of the Super Bowl? A. Its results are too exciting to meet viewers’ expectations. B. People can eat pizza, chicken wings and chips when watching it. C. Its commercials are expensive enough to draw viewers’ attention. D. The performances during its halftime s

10、how are appealing to viewers. 68. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Americans spend a large amount of money on ball games. B. American people of all ages like going to watch baseball games. C. All the American stars take part in the national basketball game. D. There a

11、re important national ball games in America almost every month. 69. The passage is mainly written to _____. A. inform readers of the three popular sports in America B. teach readers how to understand the sports culture in America C. encourage readers to fit in with American culture through sport

12、s D. show readers the importance of sports in young people’s life in America 【參考答案】66. A 67. D 68. B 69. C 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 Watch out, Yahoo．There’s search engine out there with super speed and accuracy．It’s really cool． Google is the Web’s largest search engine．I

13、n just two years it has gained a reputation for surprising speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you’re looking for in a second．The site now does this 40 million times a day – a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper ad． Google doesn’t need them．In the past six months a

14、lone, the site has won a Webby （the online version of the Oscar） for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages． Yahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they’re looking

15、 for most or all the time．“You see people smile when they use it, like they’ve found something no one else knows about,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of an online newsletter． No one is smiling more than Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, who seem certain to become billionaires when the company goe

16、s public, probable sometime next year．They make a great comedy duo．When they first met as Ph．D．students, the pair say, they found each other horrible – “I still find him horrible,” adds Brin – but were driven together by a computer – science project aimed at coming up with better ways of searching t

17、he Web． The idea behind Google is that traditional search engines are stupid．They think relevance is based on repetition; if you type in a request for Tiger Woods, say, you’ll get websites listed according to how many times those words appear．Not only is this no guarantee of quality, but it’s also

18、open to abuse．If you own a Tiger fan site and want to lead more people to it, simply type his name thousands of times in the site’s source code． 1．The first paragraph serves to ． A．compare two websites B．bring out the topic C．put blame on Yahoo D．give the background of the topic 2．Whic

19、h of the following wins greater customer satisfaction? A．Yahoo． B．Google． C．Page． D．Brin． 3．It can be inferred that Page and Brin ． A．work for Google B．a(chǎn)re Tiger fans C．hated each other D．work for Yahoo 【參考答案】1—3 BBA。 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 As a solo artist, Bri

20、ghtman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain) – the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber (he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen. The 47-

21、year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not ha

22、ving children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.” Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property develope

23、r who later committed suicide), she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school. Brightman le

24、d the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞） Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In

25、 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984. Brightman says she felt hostility(敵意) “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I

26、now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.” 1. The first paragraph tells us that _____. A. Brightman is very

27、popular around the world except in America B. Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazz C. the British people don’t like her for her style of music D. Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber 2. Brightman decided to give up having children because _____. A. she could

28、 adopt one B. her life and career were unbelievably rich without children C. she felt it normal not to have children D. she was too busy 3. The following statements are true except ______. A. Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5 B. Brightman disliked life on the campus C. Brigh

29、tman was very gifted when she was young D.The saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous 4. The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means _____. A. located B. admired C. followed D. found 5. What does the author try to say in the last paragraph by quoting Brightman’s words

30、? A. Brightman has to accept the fact that she is not liked in Britain B. Brightman lives in America but she loves her own country C. The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homeland D. Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain 【參考答案】BCADA 閱讀下列短

31、文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both langua

32、ges without any foreign accent. I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am abou

33、t to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided. I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I dese

34、rved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going

35、to tell. Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well

36、. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm. Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise c

37、ould believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go abou

38、t looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surr

39、oundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has

40、happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay. 12. The writer preferred to be called ________. A. a German B

41、. an Englishman C. both a German and an Englishman D. neither a German nor an Englishman 13. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer? A. Talented B. Modest C. Reliable D. Wise 14. The head of the company where the writer works is ________. A. Schmidt

42、B. Moritz C. Wilhelm’s father D. Gerhardt 15. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because ________. A. some people sometimes let out the secrets of his company B. the writer occasionally didn’t keep the secrets of his company C. patents and the

43、 laws are strange things to have to do with D. the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts 【參考答案】12—15、BDCA 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 【2020模擬】閱讀理解 Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished st

44、atements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. When my old dog developed major health problems, I knew that watching him fail would be painful, but I wasn’t prepared for the

45、 powerful lessons he’d offer in the last year of his life. Chance was 14 when the problems started. First, he developed a cancer that left him whistling for breath. Then came cataracts (白內(nèi)障) in both eyes, arthritis (關節(jié)炎) in his legs, and a series of ministrokes (小中風) that threw off his balance. Any

46、 one of these misfortunes would have left me begging for relief, but Chance became calmer as the disabilities piled up. When leg pain left him frozen on the floor, unable to rise for a quick pat as I came home, he didn’t complain. He just lay there patiently, signaling me with his hammering tail, e

47、ach movement spelling out the value of waiting for the things you want. When his cataracts made steering impossible after dark, he’d stand calmly until I could guide him inside, proving how easy it is to find happiness if you let go of your pride and insecurities and learn to lean on those who love

48、you. When ministrokes had him walk unsteadily like a drunk, he taught the value of persistence. For days after each attack, he’d fall as he moved about. Yet again and again he’d try to walk, each day moving a few more steps until finally he was able to get outside and back by himself. There were le

49、ssons in so much of what he did, but the key one surely was the importance of obtaining all the joy possible from each experience whether it’s a day lazing under a warm sun or a few minutes appreciating a favorite meal. For most of our life together, Chance was always rushing ahead, searching out n

50、ew adventures, then circling back to let me know what lay around the next bend. As an old dog, he did the same thing, using his attitude, instead of his once-fast legs, to show the way. 66. Chance suffered very much from all the diseases he had except for ______. A. having problem with breath

51、 B. walking around awkwardly C. having trouble drinking D. losing his eyesight in darkness 67. ______ is the most important lesson the author learned from Chance. A. Living in the present and enjoying what we have B. Learning to depend on those who we love and trust C. That we

52、 should expect good things to happen patiently D. That we should persevere in what we believe is worth trying 68. It is implied in the passage that ______. A. people might suffer from different diseases when they grow old B. people could face aging with courage and dignity C. pets

53、 would become calmer for lack of energy in their last days D. pets and masters should stick together helping each other in difficulty 69. Which of the following words best describes the author’s feelings to Chance? A. Bitter. B. Grateful. C. Proud. D. Sympathetic. 【參考答案】66-69 CABB